Riverbed brings latest version of Steelhead Mobile

BANGALORE, INDIA: Riverbed Technology, a provider in WAN optimization solution, today announced the newest version of its mobile WAN optimization solution, Steelhead Mobile 3.1.

Steelhead Mobile 3.1 builds on the Riverbed acceleration solution for workers on the go with a suite of enhancements. 

“We’ve seen organizations getting great rewards from technologies such as virtual desktop deployments, but despite these new ways to work, enterprises and remote workers are realizing that access alone isn’t enough," said Jon Oltsik, principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.

He further said that as users are increasingly separated from their data, performance issues in delivering data over the WAN can lead to a significant reduction in worker productivity.  Riverbed Steelhead Mobile can help large organizations address many of the network performance barriers and thus accelerate key applications and data to mobile workers over the WAN.”

With this release, enterprises and governments would be able to take advantage of performance optimizations for Citrix virtual desktops and key Microsoft enterprise applications and protocols for mobile workers, said a press release.

It provides functionality to improve Citrix performance for mobile workers. In addition, with this release enterprises can deliver to their mobile workers the same acceleration capabilities for Citrix XenApp as employees at headquarters and branch offices that utilize Riverbed WAN optimization already enjoy. 

Riverbed also provides enhanced optimizations for key Microsoft applications including, Exchange 2010 Application Optimization.

The company is also introducing the first mobile WAN optimization solution for organizations deploying Apple Mac laptop computers across their mobile workforces, added the release.